The Singapore Free Press, 1 August 1950

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA ASDF SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1950. IKM t rKN CENTS
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    U.S. MORALE SOARS IN KOREA
    91 1 U.S. MORALE SOARS IN KOREA ?W£ running out or the Reds WITH I.N. FORCES IN RORKA, Tuesday. tinisN lc»t their nerve for the first time today. That is of American leaders m the shrinking South-Kast ifhhead to the arrival of reinforcements from the l T ni ion had rapidly inks
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    46 1 Pictured by >i k«y«ci .-year-oli roil et shop proprietor. Mr. Lim Hioni; Ji, spent an exciting morning with his neiehbours m Thomson Road when he pulled a twelve-foot nvihun from a hole by its tail. The snake will be sold ai '-< rents a kattv. George Seow
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    MR. MALIK IS OUT-FLANKED
    223 1 LAKE SUCCESS, Tuesday. DI'SSIA yesterday named the admission of Com- munist China to the United Nations as the first order of business for the Security Council when the Soviets return to the United Nations today. The chief Soviet delegate. Mr. Jacob A. Malik, submitted this two-point
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    U.S. LIFTS LIMITS
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    China, India on peace mission?
    213 1 LONDON. Tuesday. REPORTS were circulating among diplomatic circles m London that China and India are moving together to effect a settlement m Korea and to promote I'nited Nations discussions on Formosa. Peking was reported to have suggested that India should undertake to mediate m Korea.
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    SIAM CLOSES BURMA BORDER
    48 1 Si.m yesterday closed its border with Burma where Chinese Nationalist and Burmese troops are said to be massing for conflict. The Ministry of the Interior also ordered officials of north-east province to block Indo-Chinese refugees from entering Siam without proper pa pers A. P.
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    SIAMESE OFFER TO FIGHT
    36 1 Hundreds of retired Siamese officers, soldiers and civilians lined up yesterday as volunteers for an expeditionary force to Korea. They answered an official call for volunteers broadcast on Sunday over Radio Bangkok.
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    "Russia is not seeking war'
    231 1 "Russia is not seeking war' SAN FRANCISCO, Tuesday. OKPIBLKAN foreign policy adviser to the l\S. 1V State Department, Mr. John Foster Dulles, said yesterday that developments m Korea did not necessarily mean Russia had decided on a third world war. "The action there plainly indicates that the Bolshevik leaders are
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    'Not meant to condone'
    92 1 NI/NV DELHI, Tues. DBESIDENT Rajendra Pra- id uf India said yesterday that the Prim. 1 Minister. Mr. Nehru's, peace overtures to Russia and the I'nited States were not intended to condone aggression m Korea. In an address opening a special session of Parliament. Mr. Pra^ad said
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    WHIRLWIND CITY TOUR—THEN OFF
    236 1 WHIRLWIND CITY TOUR— THEN OFF AN attractive mother of live children m England arrived m Singapore by X.L.M. Skymaster early today, had a quick breakfast at Kalians: Airport, toured the city by car, then took off for Australia to 'keep a rendezvous with her husband at Alice Springs. She was
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    102 lost in crashes
    48 1 T LEA.-T 102 persons were killed or are missing m week-end airplane crashrs around the world. Sixty persons died m B.uzil where two airliners v.cnt down. The other mishaps ranged from Alaska to the Sahara Desert and included commercial, military and private planes U.P.
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    AUSTRALIA'S LABOUR TALKS IN ROME
    107 1 AUSTRALIA'S LABOUR TALKS IN ROME ROME. Tuts. AUSTRALIA'S labour needs were discussed yesterday by Sir John Btorcy, Pie.sident of Australia's Ac.. i ry Committee for Immigration and the I' alia n Premier Signor Alcid^ De Gaspeii. The Australian leader, touiEuropetn countries to study tht» bert soiuoes for needed manpower, was
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    Colony 'men adrift' task
    75 1 LONDON. Tv T'Hi: Admiralty announced last night that a Navy and civilian te?.m will leave for Singapore on August 10 on the troop carrier Devonshire to carry out survival tests m tropical waters. The team will study physiological reactions of men adrift. One of the main
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    PLANTS FOR NAVY
    19 1 The Ui>. Defence Department is asking Congress for an extra US. $950,000,000 for navy planes. U.P.
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    Leopold to abdicate in favour of son
    198 1 Leopold to abdicate in favour of son BRUSSELS, TiM-sci.M. 1^IN(; LFOPOLD of Belgium agreed yesterday In give up his throne m favour of his son m ortW to save the country from civil war. King Leopold's capitulation to stem demands that he step down from the throne he had reclaimed
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    Congressmen assail U.K.
    82 1 WASHINGTON JTIGHT US. Con?, re s:>.: have aoousfi Britain of avoiding the ri.sk>. faced trthe United S*ate3 In defending Formosa by putting 'dollars over principle Assailing m "ir.defensiblp" Uif British order that ber In neutral if *he Ch. Rf(i<: ati:ck F"nrrr.osa the fi^h! Hou^e of Repit'st-ntaiive mniibers
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    Woman decorated
    42 1 W oman decorated Ifiss Audrey M. H»»nty. < Briti.sh missionary, was d*H*(»rftted with the 4th clan of the Ord»T of the Sacn-d Treasure on July 29 for meritortoui vices she rendered m Japan for 45 years, the Japanese Primo -Minister's Office an aounced.
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    NEW TENSION BETWEEN ARABS, JEWS
    133 1 NEW TENSION BETWEEN ARABS, JEWS LAKE SUCCESS 'I rSRAELI -ARAB r 1 an alleged I oa a Lebtn urlini r la t w.^-k was IntensftAi d when Jordan :»nd Syria added their protest i I choru.- and ts I 1 counter-eharg< c i United N it Jordan c :npla!n-d to
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    UNABLE TO HELP
    13 1 Iraq has tod I i Nations any ay X Reuter
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    The Whose Baby?' Case Drama
    610 2  - The Whose Baby?' Case Drama Arthur Morley By 1 HAVE just visited a neat cottage m the Tillage of Kangaroo Flat, outside Melbourne. to see the principal actors In Australia's ••V'hose baby?" drama. Their case came before the Privy Council m London recently but it may not have ended yet
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    KEEP-YOUR-BEAUTY QUIZ TEST
    553 2  - KEEP-YOUR-BEAUTY QUIZ TEST Ingrid Etter By JJEAUTY and good grooming are wonderful things.. .so we've often heard. After readIng some particularly Illuminating article on make-up. slimming, hand care, or antiwrinkle treatment the Chances are we resolve to turn over a new leaf. Till it all becomes too much trouble a
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    JEST A MINUTE!
    20 2 By GEOFFREY EVANS "AM I Mid wai I can t«« I m going to b« ttung shortly!
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    41 2 Topping a collection of extravagant and fetching huts, Pans milliner, Albouy showed this Etruscan brown beret trimmed With a black hand over each ear. He glamorises it with a ten -carat d\<"n<>»« engagement ring and a baguette diamond bracelet from Boucheron.
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    U.S. Woman's Diary
    554 2  - U.S. Woman 's Dia ry KAY MURRAY By NEW YORK: DURING the past week upwards of one hundred and fifty fashion editors have been milling round New York, absorbing the new fashions until it drips out of their ears. Twice a year the Hew V' rk Dress Institute puils down
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      71 2 -gf -i/?/ Zhc Trend Cock \fj£jrj it s a treasure mßkSadA P.H.HENDRY JEWELLEM 78. NORTH BRID6E RO PHONE 7421 BUITONS AND BOWS ACCESSORIES the arcade, Singapore cold storage ore 3rd road. Singapore, telephone b 376 OPENING TO-DAY JOAN TOOKE'S LIBRARY COLO STORAGE ARCADE (Newest (Designs m Qold j-^x-s^ CHOKER NECKLETS
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      141 2 7H£«£S ONLY ONE LOOK It's t^e look c/i k.e y wo"*an, achieved mm b» re reg Jar use of 'W\ J E!tza:et- A^ae" essentials x, '^^1 Ardent C ea-s Cre^ r in^ yr J Ski" To^icfor rac a-t c ea'^ess, f C'a^ge S<in Food for tmooth, ioftfl e^A r a;'O
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      301 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR I>ORN today, you must yourself to swing too far 13 guard against letting from natural, intuitive impulse, to analytical conemotion and impiise, sideration. For by the alone, guide your life. You time you have made up are too apt to rush into your mind the opporlunj something
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      188 2 Solution To Crossword No. ill So! n i()N Wn.ss: 1. B: i BpaT. 8. S' piu. 9. Oared H 13, One R| a t.r.v*. 14. Qreen, 15. Annain. II Ni c 17, Knead Down: i. Bush. 2 Improvem i.t 3. Grand stand 5 Performs net- 6. Riqiii»: 7 ;"h> track.
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    U.S. PORT TURNS BACK TO WAR
    450 3 U.S. PORT TURNS BACK TO WAR Transforma tion m San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, Monday. TpHE port city of San Francisco ringed with military installations, is turning from peace to war. The Korean situation has turned the clock back ten years. San Francisco is today again the major staging area for
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    47 3 The Queen, accompanied by the Kir^. chats with the warrant officers of the Parachute Regiment after the Presentation of the Col— fj to the three regular battalions of the Regiment at (hieen's Parade, Alder>hot. Behind the Queen is Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery. Colonel Commandant of the Parachute Regiment.
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    2 YEARS' STUDY OF SEA-BEDS
    133 3 COPENHAGEN, Monday, romprehensive deep-sea exploration will be launched from Copenhagen m rhe corvette Gala^hea will take ollt with '»nal team of scientists for a two years qj wi the t»cean>. me fl ra at The the exfon B N Qi lathe c to the old
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    BRITISH GIRLS HUNT BEETLES
    63 3 Britain has turned her land worker; girls on to the hunt for agriculture's desparate enemy, the Cwinra.l beetle. Girls of the Kent Agriculture Committee are searching for them m Than^t, following discovery of the beetles elsewhere m the county. Some were found m gardens m Margate
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    Ensuring air safety
    25 3 An Aeronautical Inspection Board has been set by the Indian Communications Ministry to ensure safety of civil air transport m India.— Reuter
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    BURMESE RICE FOR MADRAS
    43 3 The Government of India nefotiattng with the Burie Government for import of about 100.000 tons of rice for th* Madras State Madras this .year faces a deficit of 550.000 tons, due p failure caused by l and floods. Reuter
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    KANGAROOS & EMUS CAUSE FARM LOSSES
    125 3 KANGAROOS EMUS CAUSE FARM LOSSES MELBOURNE. Mon. INSPIRATIONS of the sup--1 p rten of Australia's Coat of Arrrs-the kangaroo am the emu are causing biy losses to fanners m the WestDistrict of Victoria. The Director of Fisheries and Game. Mr. A. D. Butcher. announced that far-: b' 1 £iven permits
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    Bridge Hands
    288 3 juessing em. retted the deevevytMm t'oid deciding which two-way finesse. A.s a result. Im ways not to And he prodemonstr ate via thii a to no one off to a (ieuce Dummy's qu«H-t; '9 ao» and But i:id another hear: WOQ by Souths Dug with We*. Figuring he'd
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    U.S.I. RUBBER EXPORTS UP
    66 3 Indonesian rubber exports m June totalled 65.989 tons .nst 58.991 tons m May this year, it is reported. The high export quota caused an Increase m the monthly rubber export averse which was brought to 43.304 tons, thus exceeding for the first time after the war
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    L'Osservatore fights Reds
    283 3 VATICAN CITY, Monday. LWCH morning except Monday when he walks into his study at eight o'clock. Pope Pius picks up a small brown envelope from his desk. On its face, there is printed m Italian- "To His Holiness PP XII. FR The "FR" means "Felicitiously Reigning." ror
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    JEST A MINUTE!
    6 3  -  GEOFFREY EVANS B|
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    The guests wore fancy dress
    121 3 The guests wore fancy dress RICHMOND. Mon. TWO hundred of London's leading sociahle.s joined the gayest river party since the days of King Edward Vll 's reign. Dressed as pirates. South Sea islanders, Spanish toreadors, adjnirals. bathing belles gypsies and Edwardians they board* d two Thames river nera at Richmond
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    French troops load cargo
    49 3 French troops m Bonne. Algeria, took over the job of loading cargo on to a freighter bound for Indo-China yesterday, after dockers walked off the job In protest against the Vietnamese war. The cargo consisted of wine and tobacco lor French troops m Indo-China.- U.P.
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    LEAVE CANCELLED
    19 3 All home leave for members of the United States Military Mission to Turkey has been cancelled- Reuter
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    U.S. PLEA FOR BLOODDONORS
    350 3 U.S. PLEA FOR BLOOD DONORS BOSTON, Monday. A CALL to expand the collection of blood for peace and for possible war has been issued m Boston by Gen. George C. Marshall. President of the American Red Cross. At the same time, the Harvard Medical School reported a new method oT
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    Volcanic peril to Bandoeng
    285 3 JAKARTA, Monday. YEW volcanic disturbances are signalling danger for the populous Indonesian archipelago. Government observers are most concerned about renewed activity of Tangkoeba2i Prahoe crater, 10 miles from the west Java bis resort city, Bandoeng. A few Weeks a f^o Tangkoeban Prahoe was a eumparuli/ely quiet
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    54 3 picture M.-Gen. W. 11. Walker, Commindtn? Genera! of Bth Army talks to Col Alfretf (1. Katzin (ri?ht). I'nited Nations representative, soon after he accepted the Unitrd Nations flas during a brief ceremony m Korea. The fl:*T (rijjht m l)ack«;round) under which Allied forces arc fUhtins m Korea will hang m
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    CANBERRA HAS ONLY 5 HOTELS
    97 3 CANBERRA HAS ONLY 5 HOTELS CANBERRA. pOR its whole of nearly 20,00;) Avm i\ lia's capital, Canberra, only five hotels. In keeping with Die liquor laws generally obs throughout Ausrralia. v ends at 6 p.m. (fro much eariier because o i shortages). L < cannot sell fewer U bottle of
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    Labour council proponed
    58 3 OKI lAIN'S iJ.OUU.OOO or i> <-d trad- unionists wl!! discuss at tbelr onnu-: i> r. nee In Septeml r proposal that thej i work with continental ti unions to Etabltsfi i pean council for md:: labour. The propos c proven Lpror, unions m Euro.,. ..nd ttatas an
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    Statue's hand fourch
    29 3 American arehaeolo? have found rhf righi and df>rarh*-d finger of tl facno tigod Vi< Samothrmce. on- 1 of U sum «;f Or thp Louvre Museum A.P.
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    Posters blamed
    75 3 POSTERS of scantily-clad tome.,, often rrtttosed at 1 C helniNford. hssex. on moral grounds, are now a as a potent cause of road death* Members of the Eastern Acident Prncnnon I— nation recorded thrir stron? disapprov.->i or "Jan« R»»I •ell- type posters on hoardings m pro*ninpnt pla* s
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      222 3 SINGAPORE 4.47 "From the London Editorials" (BLUE NETWORK) (BBC); 4.55 "Composer of the 484 and 41.7 metres. Week"— Haydn: 5.15 "Common--10 ajn. News from Singapore; wealth Burvey" (BBC); 5.30 "Ad--10.50 Broadcast for the Schools; ventures of Captain Kettle"— l 12 Programmes m Malay. 1 p.m. 'Kettlo Makes His Bow'; 6.00
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    The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, August 1. 1950. This man Attlee
    325 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, August 1. 1950. This man Attlee M£NT Alt lee has v always been considera man of moderation a man whose I, though deeply are nevertheless nbined with an understanding and apciation of the other fellow's point of view. He has seldom been n to raise
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    Don Iddon's Diary
    979 4 Don Iddon's Diary NEW YORK. £S there a mediator m the house? Not Korea, but for ...erica. A gigantic row is going on here. The politicians are making the generals the butt and choppingblock for every sort of accusation. The Monday morning quarter-backs are having a field day. Congrvss has
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    NEW BID TO REACHTHEPOLE
    483 4  -  THOMAS R.HENRY By THE first overland expediion to the south pole m 40 years is being planned for next December, the start of the antarctic summer. It is an Argentine Government enterprise designed primarily for exploration and secondarily to bolster claims to the sector of Antarctica
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    66 4 To demonstrate the cxactin, skill of shoe repairers a competition was held m London on pin-pointing the nvmg of small rivets mio the sole of the shoe to form decorative patterns. These patterns include ships, landscapes, flowers and portraits. Miss Joan VertVL °«Ln L °H ndOn holds the irst i2e
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    Mac Arthur, Russia's Enemy No. 1
    821 4  - Mac Arthur, Russia 's Enemy No. 1 CARL McCARDLE ASDF WASHINGTON: A VISITOR privileged to get m to see General of the Army Douglas Mac Arthur m Tokyo these days finds him, at 70. still full of the drama of exciting events and with all the headlong dash of an
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    POCKET CARTOON
    30 4  -  OSBERT LANCASTER by "Oh dear, I m afraid (.'iings arc getting really sertuui Slaudic LittUhumt>ton'i not that old J939 of-count-my-It fi-are- sealed hut I'mreally- .im M.F. 5 look."
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    'Inside' News
    39 4 'Inside' News As RS br Ru Brit Alar TV Br> n i ha pr: B Mr i A r. Cyi off. and direct Br Berlii crn Oermai n i A rec students ■dm to Amej a emp!oy< exceed 5.00«
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    MASS BUILDING IS ONLY SOLUTION
    341 5 MASS BUIL DING IS ONLY SOLUTION Mr.Majidon 'tea money' racket Free Press Staff Reporter "pRESENT legislation has not been effective m stamping out the tea money racket," said Mr. M. A. Majid, convenor of the interim committee of the newly-formed Singapore Tenants Association, to the Free Press yesterday. This evil,
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    76 5 MISS JANK KOK. a former pupil of Raifles Girls' School, nho won third place m the Eisteddfod (Welsh annual music festival) held at L iangollen. Jane was the only Malayan s»ii among 24 pianists, including several Professionals, performing at the festival. Miss Kok. 1?-->»-ar-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kok
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    Arrival of steel raises newproblem
    72 5 Arrival of steel raises newproblem action cos: of staii apore Municipal have been new problem V.eel ori- a eightDi flats for the Monk's Hill, •yed reinare m cropped up] hra] of the ..eeting yesC mmissiners •y.mendation the HarS6OO a month. steel has •_il firms. a d and the n lerstanda
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    CHEAPER AIR TRAVEL
    40 5 CHEAPER AIR TRAVEL 1 en Ma: QEA-BOAC p ran ■cheroe" an le to v/eyp.y p^r- pore or I aid Will reupofl at i he a. rrmns ear, m k&i :o Ceylon. I be t tUQ be v .n by return
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    CHINESE DRAMA
    39 5 pUPILS of the Chinese Naiicr.il Language Sciiool. Singapore, will stage Lady Sable' Cicada," a Chinese play from "The Thre^ Kingdoms." »t the Victoria Theatre on Sept. 11 and 12 m aid of the Qr.een Street Boys' Club.
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    Detectives work in Gardens
    442 5 Free Press Staff Reporter \>i.\N died m Singapore recently and a post mortem revealed some seeds m his stomach. The seeds were sent to the Department of Chemistry who m turn dispatched them to the Botanic Gardens for identification. Rack came the Gardens' report: "Strychnine". Not
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    Co-ordinating passenger transport
    76 5 Co-ordinating passenger transport Free Press Staff Reporter PUBLIC passenger transport m Singapore is to be studied by a committee for the purpose of co-ordinating all forms of such transport. At yesterday's meeting of the Municipal Commissioners four Commissioners were appointed to comprise this committee. They are Messrs. F. L. Lane.
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    GROUND CREW
    21 5 Fifteen ground technician* of No. 1 (Lincoln* Squadron. R.A.A.F. arrived m Singapore yesterday afternoon by QEABOAC Constellation from Sydney.
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    137 5 Hongkong tni\ersit> under graduates feted Prof. S. M. Banfill, Dean of the Medical Faculty, and Dr. D. W. Gould, Lecturer m Physiology, both of Hong Kong University, at the Weng Choon Restaurant, Great World, last week. Seated (from left to right). Mr. K. M. Ho. Miss P. C. Chan, Dr.
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    Sugar 'crisis'
    65 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE housewives" mainly m the Serangoon and Upper Sei-angoon area, yesterday faced another sugar "crisis" —the second within a week. The majority of shopkeepers said that there was no sugar owing to me 'Korean war." Although price tagi were hanging m front of the
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    BIG SURVEY JOB IN ANTI-RAMDIT CAMPAIGN
    318 5 BIG SURVEY JOB IN ANTI-RAMDIT CAMPAIGN Free Press Staff Reporter IJIG part played by t.'ie Malayan Survey Depart men' m the anti-bandit operations is mentioned m the annual report for 1949 just issued. The principal task of the Topogiaphical Branch— says the report— was the preparation of one inch to
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    'Wonder Kid' plans acting career
    346 5 Free Press Staff Reporter ••tl/ONDER Kid of Sime R°ad, N who cheered thousands of internees m Singapore during: the Japanese occupation with his impersonations of Carmen Miranda will leave the Colony to study Phonetic Science with a theatrical company m Sydney Australia, early m September.
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    H.K. dental Students for Singapore
    330 5 Free Press Staff Reporter BECAUSE the University of Malaya has the only dental school m the Far East, the MM eal Department of the Hong: Kong Government v of r ing two or three scholarship to Hong Kong studen s for dental courses m Singapore.
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    Polish PoW appeals to S'pore Dept.
    177 5 Polish PoW appeals to S'pore Dept. Free Press Staff Kep.'irtrr A FORMER P< ;sh sergeantmajor, who was a P.o.W. at Dachau concentration camp has written to the Dt partment of Social V. Singapore. askin2 lor help to join the Unit-d Na forces m Korea Twenty-five-year-old Edu ard Hukov. a refugee
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      59 5 M4/L Surface ra.:ii ki expected m Singapore today lrom Great Britain, N. Ireland. Eire. Burop North and West Africa. West Indies. Egypt. Ceylon. Medan Siam «nd the Federation. Latest times r .ov posting suriaomail at the G.P.O. today are: noon for Pontianak. Philippine Islands, the U.S.A. and Canada: 6.45 p.m.
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    Increase in world tin production
    81 6 Increase in world tin production THE HAGUE. Tv I T world's tin production m coo lor the a of May increased to lon* lons as compared April's 13.000. according ol the Interna- T :dy Group pubi on The Hague yesterI Kingdom prorl Lted at 2.600 jran production reachh level of
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    DROP IN EXPORTS
    15 6 .i oi! I Jan h 6.K9 I 1.28^ D.X wa pared to
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    COMMISSIONERS HIT BACK AT JOHNSON
    1339 6 COMMISSIONERS HIT BACK AT JOHNSON Lively debate on pay proposal Free Press Staff Reporter DOTH Progressive Party and Nominated I Singapore Municipal Commissioners "went to work" on the Labour Party Commissioner, Mr. Pat Johnson (North Ward), m a lively but inconclusive debate yesterday on the proposal to pay Commissioners an
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    64 6 picture. "What a chanfC from the rold m Australia.'' >aid these two schoolgirls. Patricia Ko<he (a;e 11 and Christine Roc he <age ten) when they arrived at Kalblilg Airp<'rt yesterday on their nay to Colombo to join their parents for a six month holiday Pat .md Christine are from the
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    63 6 >Ir. (ioh Ree Son? above), a IM-year-old student who h m been m the Post-School Certificate Class of AngloChinese School, left for Australia by the Charon yesterday. He wil study mtdicine M the Lniversit^ml Melbourne. His elder sister, ■fin Coh Chor Jee recently left for the I'nited States to further
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    MUST SIGN AGREEMENT
    166 6 the Municipal Commi.ssianers at their meeting terdmy agreed that In connection with the relea of an officer from tfce Electricity Department lo: ir-vear scholarshi;) for Fara ay House Diploma m :triml Engineering, should .^r into agreem to i continue In service, <>n hi> return, for not less
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    Meetings with electorate
    70 6 MX. Frank James Pro grrsiive— Kast Ward) will hold meetings on the second and 16th days of every month, beginning with August, to discuss Municipal questions with members of the electorate. The meetings will be held at 310. Joo Chiat Road, on the second day of every
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    Only SMC to issue stadium passes
    261 6 Free Press Staff Reporter ISSI'E of free passes for admission into Jalan li< >ar Stadium, will m future be made by Singapore Municipal Commissioners, and the practice of the Singapore Amateur Football Association issuing certain free passes will be stopped. The Commissioners are prepared
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    Market awaits Soviet move
    305 6 -m LONDON, {hy /GENERAL disposition m the I Exchange was to await devHopmeivv meeting of the Security Council and the Russian delegate, stji'v u t<-r correspondent. The Prime Minister's speec: was considered by dealers to connot already known and had little that were practically featurelessidle day.
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    inquiry in fectious diseases
    35 6 inquiry in fectious diseases Ir i lr. T. P f -.icipal 11 danger ft, conta The tornia! committee hu consideration It would c retary f momb*T l: Council, an a Din the Mur and one
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    FOR MENTAL OBSERVATION
    22 6 A 32-y<.ar-cl': ord- r»*<J I Police N' t-rci.-. tal I Uty card. Dhai nun speak i (■estions by tli
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    CARAVAN DOES BEST GALLOP IN PENANG
    265 7  - CARAVAN DOES BEST GALLOP IN PENANG ALLAN LEWIS Winning effort for Cl. 5 horse From PENANG, Tuesday. gKST gallop at this morning's workouts, on the second grass track, which was heavy, was done by a Class 5 horse, Caravan (Woods), who went better than Ricksmead (Bagby) when running three furlongs
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    32 7 \il \M last \r.:rs wotld champion, won the i^o m the Swiss motor-o i It* x it (.fiirv.t. He did tN» fatrst Up of thr \J 9 it >p«*ed of 84.7."» m.p.h.
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    57 7 SCOT WINGER IN ACTION—Left winger Capt. D. C. Smith, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, the Ar.m> and Scotland, swervinjj past a would-be tackier and getting away down the line with the hall during the rugby union match between the British Isles touring team and a Combined New Zealand XV
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    Compton hits 85th century
    205 7 19 gratifying news tor Rngltih cricket I ,'.i\ when two of the recent invalids Denis and len Hutton both scored centuries. s was perhaps the major happening of the kel for Hutton had scored 98 of his runs Wm Indies on Saturday and was out ling
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    TANGLIN CLUB TENNIS
    171 7 i TANGLIN CLUB NMIUd M Men h Heap MUw- MM] K. d .aid Ma; A R Da*r Duckworth jnd W. H. Droocleevtr (—lf) 6-3. f-4. Br.^ F-ver -r.d LI Cd J nd -^rr.» t* Col H Smr.fi arid Lt Col Ba*f 6-3. 6-2 M Buttroe* «iiri J
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    Penang XI are confident
    130 7 PENANGS fin.> victory 0V« Perak m Saturday •Malaya Cup" fixture at Ipoh has considerably heightened the Settlement's hopes ol .^curing the coveted trophy ♦rum Singapore. Jubilant Mr. Wap Hoc* Hoe president of the PenanFootball Association, told tn F.ee Press after the game. ••I am more than
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    Referess' meeting
    16 7 -n,. fi^sr diif'Jssion meetin ,h L-V-'aoore Society of R 1% WW take place f§
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    Three killed watching race
    68 7 IMIRKK persons were killed «>n Sunday watchins: Juan Manuel Kan 310 «>f Argentina win the 27"-! kilometer (irand Prix Des Nations automobile race. l.uiiii Villoresi of Italy ploughed into spectators parked behind a low wooden barrier. killing three and injuring "20. 10 of them ■ertomly. The
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    Cup team to play Rest
    139 7 CINGAPOPES Malaya Cup XI will meet a stroiv; Rest XI on Saturday. Aug 5 at Jalan Besar. m their second and final "P-acrce"' match before meeinj Penan^ m the Malaya Cup Anal scheduled for August 12. at Kuala Lumpur. The Ine up will be as
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    10 7 Never mind, the ln|li»fc are getting I bea»m| Trear Srid«e!
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    Jimmy Tan scores 4 for Tigers
    154 7 JIMMY TAN, Tigers' outside-left, played a great nart m his team's victory over BODCA m a Senior League tie at Geylang yesterday, scoring all four goals m their 4—3 wir^ BOACA were the nrsi to score and they got their goal through Samad a
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    17 7 The Bright Star Spores Club's v pov-pf! tporta meeting for Indian Independent- D«V <Aug.l9> has been cancelled.
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    Cricket coaching on national scale
    208 7 I \.\Y cricket followers m England are hoping that aTI the recent M.C.C. proposal to form a national organisation to coach youths will not put a stop to the unorthodox genius. While the M C.C. proposal is m itself an admirable scheme, many cricket lovers
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    KOTA RAJA TOO GOOD FOR CASUALS
    263 7 pi'PHOLDEKS Kota Kaja were never stretched to beat Chinese Casuals m a SAFA Challenge Cup first round tie at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. On Thursday they will meet KAF (Changi) m a second round fixture. Five goals by Awang Bakar. Hussein '2t. Buang Tumin
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    Bailey Aims At Record
    176 7 J^ MacDONALD Bailey, the j. Trinidad sprinter and British Olympic representative, whose 220 yards running has been an outstanding feature of the British athletics sniMin. is confident that he .-an get down to the world record of 20.3 seconds. The record was established by Jesse Owens
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    Urges tour of W.I.
    31 7 OYD Smith, Presidfiit 01 the New South Wales Cricket Association, yesterday urged the Board of Cricket Control to send a learn to the West Indies m 1951-52.
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    ALLEN DEFENDS TITLE TONIGHT
    79 7 Both flyweight champion Terry Allen of England and Hawaii's challenger Dado Marino did their final training for their championship battie to be held m Honolulu tonight. Both were reported within a pound of the 112-lb. flyweight limit, but In three months work, Marino had sweated off
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    West Indies defeated by Yorkshire
    588 7 West Indies defeated by Yorksh ire CiS a pitch slightly affected by wrt*k twm rain 17 wickets fell for 276 runs on the second day of the match between Yorkshire and the \V«M Indies touring team yesterday at Sheffield. The close of play found Yorkshire requiring 203 runs with nine
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    DAWSON WINS BY KNOCKOUT
    76 7 A MERIVAN tarn (W *M km> IbOal E B The ci.d an;«- 42 WtUmt scheduled far 12 rounds. Mou?:n d of t!ie filth n und Daw?on I I He Bnished tin- fight with th- ck ponchti, l- f i. r. h.. U.i Moucin »'iit do»n und
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      30 7 Today's sport BOC4 KR: < uptic: t hinese Athletes v Royal Kngineers at Jalan Kesar Stadium; Snr. league: R.A.F. Seletar f Indonesians at (tevlant. TENNIS: V.M.C.A. and Tanglin Club tournaments iconl.i.
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    FORMOSA MAY GET U.S. ARMS
    280 8 FORMOSA MAY GET U.S. ARMS Chiang, MacA m 2-hr, talk TAIPEH, Tuesday. AMERICAN material military aid lor Formosa is expected to be the outcome of the talks between General iMacArthur and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek who conferred for two hours yesterday near the Nationalist headquarters at Taipeh. Their surprise meeting came
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    35 8 GOING IP— A V-.' rocket nkrs off at the aMtg-nagc nruvin? grounds at i cuo:i. Florida. I'.S.A. The nosr of the V is thr sm:illrr r«»ckt't arhlefa broke away and spod eastward over thr Atlantic.
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    China marks Sino-Reds Army Day
    127 8 HONG KONG, Tues. 'Vlii: Chinese Commun. celebrating the Chin Red Army Duy today and described the 5,000,000- man force as one which •yet is destined to play a signiiii nnt role m defending the peace In east Asia and the world It will be the
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    DEATH FOR U.S. SPIES
    67 8 WASHINGTON, rue* A BILL to provide the deatr p«-n:ii!v for spying during the- next two years VBI I provrd yesterday by the U£ Senate Judiciary Commli be present maximum penalty for anyone convicted of etplonage m p- ace time v ars imprisonment. The Bill ivjw •'•>?
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    18 8 tf hot does V t x pet I tlitre aren't any rifle ranges at Smith fit- Id Market*
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    Bandits wish to surrender
    46 8 ASMARA. Tues (STRONG pressure by police and miitary forces on the shifts < bandits* on the eastern slopes of Eritrea has led several of the stlifta leaders to approach the authorities with a view to knowing the terms of the surrender. A .P.
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    U.K. PREPARES WAR PLAN
    65 8 THE B:it i.>h government has ordfied a learn of experts to draft a standby plan for the conversion of industry lo a full war-time basis, informed sources said m Loncion yesterday. Along with this long-range plan, to be implemented only m rase of emergency, they said
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    BERLIN RED MOVE
    34 8 The first "National Congress" of the Communistsponsored National Front, staging an all out attempt to win over West Germany, Is to be held In Berlin on Aug 25 and 26 Reuter
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    CARS USED IN SEA SMUGGLING
    287 8 LEWES, England, Tuesday. 4 SHOPKEEPER'S paper carrier-bag was the slender clue that put Investigation Branch ollicers of the Customs on the trail of a watchsmuggling gang, who were given prison sentences at l.ewes Assizes. Sussex. England. Leader of the gan£. Charles "Wagger" Morns, motor dealer,
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    Two charged with spying for U.S.S.R.
    136 8 NEW YORK. Tik-s. ACRBBCICAL rnziVA ex and a active blonde yes--v on conspiracy chai linking them wrh the S pv ring which st le Am rican atomic secre The p-a:r. A bran 'in Brohu 36. .aid M.r;.:r. tlwkimi J4. were I c3j*urd Ormod Jury
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    Tin market firmer
    72 8 LONDON. Tu*s. BOTH spot and forward tin wa> v :2 Aimer m quiet renditions yesterday. Spot Closed at €71}'. and three months at £7131 The turnover was :\?> tons Making a total of 115 lor the day The d I >rio-s at the aitr-rnuon session were: Spot
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    'Storm' goes for Berlin
    51 8 'Storm' goes for Berlin BERLIN, Tues. THE American Comma:, m Berlin. liai.-Oen. Maxwell Taylor, predicted westerr; y that Benin would liavo a "turbulent" autumn brrause of the Bast German elections on Oct. 15 and the creation of a "national front" m East Berlin directed toward* unifying Germany under Communist control.
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    Ulcers favour Chinese
    73 8 At: mys.rry n\ why hinrse plantation workers get 1 stomach ul( -rs and stomach cancer while Javanese work'rs aUnost never do was discussed at an international meeting m Oxford. England, yesterday, by Dr. If, KouwfMiara, of Amsterdam. Perhaps it was an important clue to cancer, he said,
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    ADDITIONAL AID
    24 8 President Truman announced yesterday that he was sending: a message to Congress asking for $4,000.--000,000 additional military aid to anti-Communist nations. Reuter
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    Law makes fathers of the childless
    223 8 LONDON. Tuesday. H\EKY year m Britain J,5«0 innocent men have paternity orders made out against them. Reason: The law is unwillir.£ to accept the evidence of scientific blood tests. This charge was made m Liverpool by Dr. R. R. Race, of London, at the
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    CASTLE LEFT TO POOR MAN
    200 8 GLASGOW, Tuesday QNE hundred thousand pounds, an 80-roomeri castle, and a 30-roomed mansion have com; 1 just m time for the Fergusson-I'ollok.s. of Duncin, Britisfi Columbia. Robert FergUSmi-PoUok. El2-ft-weefc .sawmill engineer, had been badly injured at work Pi of getting back to his job were
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    H.K. gold price up
    75 8 HONG KONG. Tliea, GOLD roy sharply In Hong Kong yesterday the report that (Jtn Mac Arthur had arrived at Taipeh. Formula, t.) consult G'nt rtliwtmo Ch;ang X ■hek. Opening at 314 gold bars advanced itemdily to 323 i and f.asinp at 321 3 4 The following
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    Threw rocks, £8
    33 8 Two members of Sir o Mosley's Fascist -!ik#» of iC'd v. iierday In Lone throwing rork* thioucl m^ndfrn-s of rh^ Boriei Embaasy. The Coun |trf th^m 28 da] iy.- A.P.
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    Niece of Queen weds
    7 8 Niece of Queen weds M Rhodf A.P.
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